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"Galvayning" was the practice of tying the horse's head to its tail, rendering the animal virtually immobile, when it could be "gentled" by the "third Hand", a wooden stick with an egg-shaped BLOB at its end, which was passed over the body.

Explanation:The ending "chen" may be somewhat confusing here. After all, we are talking about a horse, not a mouse. If anyone has ever had the good fortune to see the film classic "The Blob", you know that "blobs" can be quite large. The expression "third hand" correctly describes the size of the "blob" in this case; often the "blob" is even larger than a hand. The idea is to replace the nuzzling nose of another horse, to pet the horse, to stroke the horse, to calm the horse. It would be better to use a real hand but that would mean coming dangerously close to the still-unbroken horse.

NODE – The New Oxford Dictionary of English says a "blob" is "an indeterminate roundish mass or shape".

This would mean that some combination of "weich" plus "Klump", "Klumpen" (Singular), "Masse", "Knolle", "Knollen" (Singular), etc might be used.

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Explanation:These are the terms listed in Der Grosse Muret-Sanders. Generally, in US usage, a blob is a somewhat amorphous object, Klumpen (or maybe Gebilde) would be a good German equivalent.

A phrase like, "mit einem eiförmigen Klumpen" might work, or possibly s.th. like "mit einem länglichen (or ovalen) Tropfen", maybe even "eiförmige Auswölbung". Since Kugel is, by definition, round, it wouldn't work too well in conjunction with eiförmig or oval or any other modifier that describes shape.

Explanation:The ending "chen" may be somewhat confusing here. After all, we are talking about a horse, not a mouse. If anyone has ever had the good fortune to see the film classic "The Blob", you know that "blobs" can be quite large. The expression "third hand" correctly describes the size of the "blob" in this case; often the "blob" is even larger than a hand. The idea is to replace the nuzzling nose of another horse, to pet the horse, to stroke the horse, to calm the horse. It would be better to use a real hand but that would mean coming dangerously close to the still-unbroken horse.

NODE – The New Oxford Dictionary of English says a "blob" is "an indeterminate roundish mass or shape".

This would mean that some combination of "weich" plus "Klump", "Klumpen" (Singular), "Masse", "Knolle", "Knollen" (Singular), etc might be used.